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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Why white borders around photos? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Cerenity1000@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I've seen that professional photographers use white borders around their photos on Instagram, why do they make their photos smaller by doing that? To preserve image quality?

If that is so why don't they just use standard 1:1 , 3:4 or landscape mode which ig supports instead of custom crops

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[–] txensen@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm always surprised how many people are unaware that Instagram has allowed custom aspect ratios for many years now.

[–] 0qxtXwugj2m8@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

care to explain?

[–] qtx@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It's pretty useless if you want to post more than one photo. The AR of the first photo will be applied to all the other pics so if your photos are all different ARs it will not work.

[–] cosine83@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

They do but within very narrow margins and they'll crop and compress anyways usually. And forget about mixed aspect ratios in a single post.